Eric Stevenson I thought I would be soon over these stupid "Amityville" movies for Book Month, but there's always more of them! They just keep getting worse! This film once again starts by claiming it's based on a true story. For the umpteenth time, none of this was based on a true story and the author admitted to making the whole thing up! It was based on a novel, not a work of non-fiction! I hope James Randi cancels these films.This doesn't even have much to do with the actual Amityville story. There's a few allusions here and there, like the flies. This movie is dreadfully boring. It's basically trying to cash in on the "Paranormal Activity" movies and behaves exactly like them! Well, I guess a lot of found footage films act like this. The point is that new people are moving into the Amityville house and their son records everything weird that happens.There's a scene where a ghost just appears and does nothing for a full minute. I haven't seen every single "Amityville" so forgive me if I missed something. The ending is probably the worst as it features the dad going nuts and acting like an idiot. He's just beating up air in one scene. People are violently killed throughout the beginning of the film and the family still stays there! It's a pointless clichéd film and I'm glad to be done with these stupid movies. *

Realrockerhalloween The Amityville Horror enters the 00s in a found footage device telling the story of the Benson family as they move into the house though its never seen or the inside architecture resemble the original. Following in the footsteps of recent poltergeist films it managed to lower the bar with shaky camera work, static and blackouts.Its quite uneventful cutting out just when the entity strikes, a mysterious phone leaving silly calls and an invisible friend named Matthews who only wants the girl to stay with him forever. The atmosphere was bland without using creepy corridors or shadows and fire places we've come accustomed to. Filled with a none star caste who can't act and cheap synthetic music it nearly made me turn the DVD off. I never met a Amittyville I didn't enjoy in the least, but it was very telling how they phoned it in.It never explained why the house still stands, how Matthews connects to the Defao murders or if he may be Josey in disguise. The murder scenes were unoriginal, uneventful and off screen for the most part leaving it a dried up shell without any redeeming features.This is one Amittyville you could skip and pretend it doesn't exist. Should've stopped at dollhouse.

voxelfox If I could rate this thing lower than 1 I would. This film made me depressed. After I finished watching it I realised that I hated myself so much that I had just wasted 1 hour 26 minutes of my life that I will NEVER get back. The "actors" don't know their lines and constantly talk over each other, the script makes ZERO sense, the characters are entirely unbelievable, not to mention unlikable, and everything about the production values looks like something a high school A.V. club would put together. There's an entire scene where this punk kid finds an iPod Touch and keeps calling it a phone, until the actor forgets he's in a movie and calls it an iPod under his breath. That is the kind of movie we're dealing with. It's so bad they couldn't afford an actual phone to use for the movie, and instead of using a cheap old one from a salvage shop, or even just using one of the cast or crew's phones, they pull an iPod Touch out of their buttholes and try to tell us it's a phone. The only good thing about this film is that, after watching, I am at least 1 hour and 26 minutes closer to death.

vikingprincess1976 I really, really wish I had checked out the reviews on this before I watched it. Would have saved me 1 and 1/2 hours of my life that I will never get back now. Found it on Netflix and thought, I have seen some pretty bad movies, how bad can it be really? IT CAN BE REALLY BAD!This was like the worst film, ever. Acting, script, dialogue, setting, all total sh*t. Sorry, but it is the truth! They mention Amityville and the Defaeo family, but nothing else really jibes. The "Shadow" (knock off of Halloween, anyone?) did not even try to look like Ronald DeFaeo, Jr. The dad was a complete and utter asshole, and the guy who played his part could not act his way out of a paper bag. I spent most of my time trying to get a good view of the smallest girl, because she looks a lot like my cousin, lol. Kinda freaked me out just how much. All in all, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME. Take it from someone who wasted some of hers on this crap.